BRAC More than 40% of girls in Bangladesh drop out from secondary school, and almost 60% are married by the time they turn 18. Mitu is one of 100,000 young women in nearly 5,000 adolescent clubs across Bangladesh. These clubs provide safe spaces where young women can learn sports, life skills, social confidence and entrepreneurship….
Ramzy Baroud, Journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle, Noted columnist/Gulf News Netanyahu is actively pursuing alliances with far-right groups and parties in Europe as state policy ‘Should Israeli politicians be meeting with the European far right?” was a title of an article published in the American Jewish newspaper, The Forward. Writer, Dr. Nimrod Goren,…
Vincent Dolman/ Scroll.in, India Vincent Dolman spotted the gesture on a visit to India and found it to be delightfully unconventional. A surprising cultural norm prevails in India: Men here like to hold hands. Though masculinity is rigidly defined and homophobia rampant in the country, the practice is so common that it is rarely noticed….
Yohannes Gedamu, Lecturer of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, GA, US./ Al jazeera The recent events in Eastern Ethiopia proved once again that the country’s ethnic federalism is not working. After just four months in office, Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed already managed to make the nation hope for a better,…
Hannah Storm, Director of the International News Safety Institute/ Project Syndicate Female journalists are more likely than their male counterparts to be subject to social media harassment and digital abuse. But despite real efforts to improve gender equality in the industry, one of the biggest threats women in the media face continues to be viewed…
BSS: Child domestic workers are always under threat of being physically, mentally and sexually abused at their work places, says a recent study. It reveals that employers of child domestic workers never consider them as like as their own children. As a result, they do not allow their workers to get access to education, recreation…
The Guardian: A divorcee seeking a wealthy boyfriend has won £13,100 in damages from an elite dating agency after it failed to introduce her to the match she hoped would be “possibly the man of my dreams, the father of my child”. Tereza Burki had sued Seventy Thirty, based in Knightsbridge, central London, for deceit…
NDTV: For the first time ever, ISRO is planning to put an Indian astronaut in space, from Indian soil, for seven days, that too at a cost of less than Rs. 10,000 crore as part of its manned mission by 2022, ISRO Chairman K. Sivan said on Wednesday. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving the…
Independent.UK: Apple could launch two major new products in the coming years, according to an expert report.Together, the categories could help propel Apple to be the first two-billion-dollar, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote. Apple broke through the one-billion-dollar market cap record last week. First will come Apple’s attempt at augmented reality glasses, according to the report…
AFP: South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday his visit to Pyongyang next month will be a “bold step” towards formally ending the decades-old war with the nuclear-armed North. The two Koreas agreed earlier this week to hold a third meeting between Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in September as a rapid…